Slaughterhouse Five, by Vonnegut, Kurt

Slaughterhouse Five is a cathartic anti war novel centered around the author's witnessing of the fire-bombing of Dresden. It also focuses on the pathetic life of the protagonist, a grown man named Billy. The full title of the book is more than a mouthful, but for purposes of completeness, here it is:

Slaughterhouse Five; or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., a Fourth-Generation German-American Now Living in Easy Circumstances on Cape Cod (and S[…]

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